Rob Smart, whose father said he started the farm from “virgin bush” in 1932, expressed confidence in the new government’s pledge to protect the commercial farming sector, a mainstay of the struggling economy.

“It’s early days but so far what they (the new government) said they are going to do they are doing,” he told Reuters.

BOTSWANA: Two South African nationals alongside their alleged Zimbabwean partner in crime were on Tuesday remanded in custody for smuggling six minors from Zimbabwe into the country, allegedly enroute to South Africa.